Bought a computer from ibuypower years ago. Hard drive fried. Just looked at the mobo, and its a socket 1155. Not sure what CPU I have in there at the moment, but it is at least 3 or 4 years old so I imagine its pretty slow as compared to what is out there today. Any reason to try and upgrade it given that socket? I would guess based on what limited info I've seen is that 1155 is dying and the future for Intel is sockets 1150 (and more so 1151?).
Thanks!
"pretty slow as compared to what is out there today"?? No, not necessarily. I've got an i7-2600K that I bought when it first came out in 2011 and is still more than fast enough now, particularly OC'd to 4.2 GHZ. So everything depends on just what processor you have now. In a system such as mine, if the only thing wrong with it was a bad hard drive, then I'd just buy a new drive and call it good.
If the "hard drive" in question is an old fashioned spinning disk drive, the biggest "upgrade" you could make for a general purpose system would be to replace it with an SSD. Over the last few years, SSD's have been the biggest difference in perceived speed and responsiveness of any component in the system (perceived meaning how it feels to use it). I know at work, I had some 4 year old laptops that people were complaining about (in terms of feeling slow) and after I swapped the disk drives to SSD's they felt like new machines in comparison.
If the system was feeling fast enough for what you were doing with it at the time the drive died, then just replace the drive other than if it was a spinning disk, get an SSD instead.